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Highlights of weeklong battle ------------------------------------------------------------------ Day 1: Four people were killed in two separate gunbattles between rebels and soldiers in South Aceh district and Aceh Besar district. Twelve school buildings were burned down in Bireun. Day 2: One rebel was killed in North Aceh and 12 others were arrested, while 185 more school buildings were burned in Bireun, Pidie, Aceh Besar, Aceh Jaya, Aceh Tamiang and Banda Aceh. Day 3: The military claimed to have killed nine rebels in Bireuen and Pidie, but rebels put the death toll at 13, including 10 civilians. Sixty-three more school buildings were burned down. Day 4: The TNI claimed to have killed 30 rebels and arrested 21 others during bloody clashes in Aceh Besar, East Aceh and on Nasi Island. Eleven soldiers were injured in the fighting. Forty-four more school buildings were burned down, and several trucks carrying food supplies to Banda Aceh were attacked. Day 5: The TNI claimed to have killed 58 rebels in attacks on GAM bases in Pidie and North Aceh. GAM claimed to have killed 43 soldiers and police officers, and accused the TNI of killing 53 civilians. Prices of basic commodities in the province began to rise. Day 6: The TNI killed Tengku Hasan Muda, the GAM regional commander on Nasi Island. More than 100 school buildings were burned down in Pidie, Bireuen and North Aceh. Day 7: The TNI claimed to have killed 65 rebels in clashes with GAM in North Aceh, Aceh Besar and Bireuen. Three soldiers and one police officer were reported killed in the clashes.